Quotes About Division

The sun's o'ercast with blood: fair day, adieu!Which is the side that I must go withal?I am with both: each army hath a hand;And in their rage, I having hold of both,They whirl asunder and dismember me.

The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.

I do perceive here a divided duty.

Reason, in itself confounded,Saw division grow together.

You may tell anyone you want," Khrushchev continued, "that we will never accept Adenauer as a representative of Germany. He is a zero. If Adenauer pulls down his pants and you look at him from behind you can see Germany is divided. If you look at him from the front, you can see Germany will not stand.

We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end.

I am quite sure that the Communion is just the place where we need to be divided until our unity is real.

Walls in people's heads are sometimes more durable than walls made of concrete blocks.

Jetzt sind wir in einer Situation, in der wieder zusammenwächst, was zusammengehört." ("Now we are in a situation where what belongs together, will grow back together.") Berlin radio interview, November 10, 1989 [the day after the de facto abolition of intra-German border controls by the East German government]

Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."

The Cracked Eggs, he says, have broken up.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

Human beings are divided into mind and body. The mind embraces all the nobler aspirations, like poetry and philosophy, but the body has all the fun.

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

If we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

They seemed so stubborn, resisting division by any number but one and themselves.

Whether at his desk or at the dinner table, when he talked about numbers, primes were most likely to make an appearance. At first, it was hard to see their appeal. They seemed so stubborn, resisting division by any number but one and themselves. Still, as we were swept up in the Professor's enthusiasm, we gradually came to understand his devotion, and the primes began to seem more real, as though we could reach out and touch them.

No wonder religious fundamentalism and extreme right-wing nationalism simultaneously reappear.

Until now we've discriminated against each other according to race, religion, age, gender and just about every other differentiation imaginable. Look around you tonight and you'll see that those differences are gone. Now, to put things as simplistically as possible, there is just "us and "them", and it is impossible for us to coexist. We have no alternative but to fight, and we must keep fighting until we have wiped them out.

kingdoms, the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah, had been united under King Solomon in the tenth century bce, but split apart under his son Rehoboam. This division rendered them vulnerable to attack, as when the Assyrians laid siege to Israel in the late eighth century and the Babylonians to Judah in the early sixth century bce.